A video was recently released by the Lagos State government
touting the state capital, Lagos, as a megacity has been described by various
critics as “a myth,” “sheer fantasy,” and “a series of false representations.”
The video, which is available on youtube, offers a spruced
up, non-existent image of Lagos as a safe city that – in the words of Governor
Babatunde Fashola – anybody “would like to call home.” The video ostensibly
made by the Lagos Internal Revenue Service also feautured the former governor
of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, whose Alpha Beta tax collection company reportedly
makes billions of unearned income from the state coffers on a monthly basis.
Welcome to Lagos Africa's very own big apple, a vibrant
mega-city whose pulse is felt as wide as its influence reaches, a discovery of
opportunities at the heart of Africa.
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